Ruby on Rails Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails Developer (RoR Developer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Ruby on Rails Developer (RoR Developer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 441 488
Rank change year-on-year +52 +47 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby on Rails Developer 7 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.026% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.027% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 17
10th Percentile - £394 £435
25th Percentile £350 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -11.36% +51.72%
75th Percentile £497 £547 £650
90th Percentile £514 £563 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Ruby on Rails Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Ruby on Rails Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +31 5 £350 -22.22% 1
North West - 5 £350 - 1
Wales - 2 £488 -
Ruby on Rails Developer
UK

Ruby on Rails Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Ruby on Rails Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Ruby on Rails Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Ruby
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) B2C
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD

Ruby on Rails Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) B2C
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared